millie58

I wish I could help. I fostered a teen for a year and stayed in his life for a few years after. He started out good but took off. I adopted another at 12 and he’s a father and stepfather and is good. The adopted one was abused by stepfather, went to a facility and was in 2 types of therapy, There’s no rhyme or reason as to how things will go.

I’m in NY. My caseworker went through every room. I had to get rid of stuff or find a place for it.

Honestly, nothing is certain until the judge bangs his or her gavel. Sorry I don’t have better news.

I had an open foster home in NY and now live in NJ. Not sure about the current foster care but there was an article that there is a need for foster parents due to COVID.

Income requirement is needed. Foster care agencies need to know that prospective foster parents aren’t doing it for the money. You need to show you can support a foster child with your income in case funds are stalled.

This. My kids were all older. My oldest was in the process of telling his bio mother our address but I caught him. My youngest told their bio mom when I wasn’t around.

I foster/adopted as a single mom. I never had bio children. While it is true that some adopted kids don’t attach, the same can be said of biological children. The difference is you hear stories about foster kids (and RAD happens to adopted newborns, not just foster kids) and people think if they have bio kids, those bio kids will be perfect...and we know this isn’t true.

Shop around. You should find a daycare thst’ s reasonable. Also, ask if the cost goes down as the child gets older.